- Display -1 Products per page
-
Contemporary Life Drawing
Course Code: E2302DR002 Tutor: Zoe Toolan Course Dates: Thursdays: 11th January to 21st March 2024 Times: 10:30AM - 4:30PM Experience Level: Ages 18+, All Levels Fee: £630 From: £630.00Traditional, skill based life drawing is complemented with contemporary drawing approaches in this exciting and multifaceted drawing course.
This course is part of our Elective Skills Workshop series. You will be studying alongside students from our pre-degree and degree programmes. -
Rachael BallDesign A Children’s Picture Book
Course Code: EC2302023 Tutor: Rachael Ball Course Dates: Thursdays, 11th January - 28th March 2024 Days: 11 Times: 6.30pm - 9.00pm Experience Level: Ages 18+, All Levels Fee: £350 Location: Art Academy London, 165A Mermaid Court, SE1 1HR Recommend booking before: Wednesday 20th December 2023 £350.00In this exciting course you’ll be able to combine both writing and illustrating to create your own engaging children’s picture book.
In the first five weeks of the course you will focus on:
– Writing the first draft of your story
– Developing a story arc
– Designing your characters
– Developing ideas for a page turning script and storyboard planningIn the second half of the course you will:
– Focus on developing and refining your visuals
– Experimenting with colour pencil, watercolour and mixed media to find the best way to bring your story to lifeBy the end of the course, you will have a final set of illustrations, a storyboard, several page layouts and an individual action plan to help you turn your story plans into a finished sample for a publisher.
After completing this course we recommend signing up for our Digital Illustration courses.
Our tutor Rachael Ball is a published author and an experienced teacher. Her book ‘The Inflatable Woman’ was a Guardian Best Graphic Novel in 2015. -
Drawing for Beginners: Stage 1
Course Code: EC2302214 Tutor: Jess Routley Course Dates: Thursdays, 11th January - 28th March 2024 Days: 11 Times: 5.30pm - 7.15pm Experience Level: Beginner Fee: £310 Location: Art Academy London, 165A Mermaid Court, SE1 1HR From: £310.00This course is an accessible, creative and relaxing introduction to the basic skills of drawing. Each session will focus on a different theme, providing a wide range of techniques to raise confidence and enhance visual awareness. Through various drawing approaches including still life, life drawing and portraiture, you will learn to explore and understand line, tone, measurement, texture and composition. There will be a life model in some sessions and students are encouraged to express themselves freely with guidance from the tutor.
-
Drawing for Beginners: Stage 1
Course Code: EC2302314 Tutor: Jess Routley Course Dates: Thursdays, 11th January - 28th March 2024 Days: 11 Times: 7.30pm - 9.15pm Experience Level: Ages 18+, Beginner Fee: £310 Location: Art Academy London, 165A Mermaid Court, SE1 1HR Recommend booking before: Wednesday 20th December 2023 From: £310.00A creative, entry-level course introducing the basics of drawing. Each session will focus on a different theme and provide a wide range of techniques for beginners to get started.
Through various drawing approaches including still life, life drawing and portraiture, you will explore and learn:– Line & Tone to understand 3D forms
– Using colour
– Measurement and proportion
– Texture
– CompositionThere will be a life model in some sessions and students are encouraged to express themselves freely with guidance from the tutor. By the end of the course you will have gained a good understanding of the fundamentals of drawing, plan and compose your work, and develop your own personal appraoch to drawing.
Progress onto our ‘Drawing: Stage 2’ course were you can further your drawing practice.
-
Drawing: Stage 3
Course Code: EC2302036 Tutor: Kinga Markus Course Dates: Thursdays, 11th January - 28th March 2024 Days: 11 Times: 6.30pm - 9.00pm Experience Level: Ages 18+, Intermediate Fee: £365 Location: Art Academy London, 165A Mermaid Court, SE1 1HR Recommend booking before: Wednesday 20th December 2023 From: £365.00This course is designed for students who have either completed our ‘Drawing: Stage 2’ course or already have some experience of drawing and want to take their skills to the next level.
Over the course, students will explore:– Drawing from observation
– Memory and imagination
– Rhythm and movemenentYou will develop a deeper understanding of the drawing process and have time to enhance your drawing skills.
Each week focusses on a particular aspect of drawing. Students will explore measurement and gain confidence in drawing a wide variety of subjects including still life, life models, and urban landscapes. Through using different approaches and materials, students will begin to develop a ‘visual vocabulary’ of drawing. You will develop ways to communicate texture, weight, material and surface in your work.There will be opportunities to work both inside and outside the studio, and in museums and galleries. Working outside of the studio will teach students how to capture movement and figures in space, feeding off the energy of the environment around them. Students will work outside in the ‘real world’, and experience how this produces a different kind of energy in their drawings.
-
Sketching Perspective – Online Course
Course Code: OC2302041 Tutor: Illugi Eysteinsson Course Dates: Thursdays, 11th January - 8th February 2024 Days: 5 Times: 6.00pm - 8.00pm Experience Level: Ages 18+, All Levels Fee: £150 Location: Online Recommend booking before: Wednesday 20th December 2023 £150.00From the innovator, Brunelleschi to the master of illusion, Escher, perspective – one’s point of view – can be argued as the most fundamental principle of sketching. This new course focuses on the importance of perspective and spatial perception as the basis of realism, helping you develop and learn the laws of geometry to create form, dimension, distance and space within your works.
With a focus on producing quick freehand sketches of buildings, rooms, furniture, and stairs, using plans, elevation, and axonometric drawings, master both one and two-point perspective techniques. This course is suitable for all levels, those experienced artists who are looking to strengthen their fundamentals of drawing, as well as beginners.